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Wellcome Collection is a museum and library based at 183 Euston Road, London, England, displaying a mixture of medical artefacts and original artworks exploring "ideas about the connections between medicine, life and art". [2] Founded in 2007, the Wellcome Collection attracts over 550,000 visitors per year. [1]
The London Museums of Health & Medicine is a group that brings together some of the activities of several museums in London, England, related to health and medicine. [1] The group was founded in 1991.
The Academic Unit was a group of university staff appointed at University College London that conducted a programme of university teaching, thesis supervision, seminars, conferences and publications. Directors of the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine
Also on the site is the Barts Pathology Museum, which has over 4,000 medical specimens on display [48] and has been described by CNN as one of the "world's 10 weirdest medical museums". [49] This museum is only open by appointment and for special events. [48] Both museums are part of the London Museums of Health & Medicine group. [50]
Dittrick Museum of Medical History, Cleveland; Indiana Medical History Museum, Indianapolis; International Museum of Surgical Science, Chicago; Medical History Museum, Dr. Christopher S. Best House and Office, Middleburgh, New York; Mütter Museum, Philadelphia; National Museum of Health and Medicine, Silver Spring, Maryland
Displays on medieval monastic health care; the history of St Thomas's, Guy's Hospital and Evelina Children's Hospital; Florence Nightingale and nursing; and medical and herbal medicine; The museum is a member of the London Museums of Health & Medicine. [6] The building is listed Grade II* on the National Heritage List for England. [7]
The Wellcome Library is a free library and Museum based in central London It was developed from the collection formed by Sir Henry Wellcome (1853–1936), whose personal wealth allowed him to create one of the most ambitious collections of the 20th century.
The Royal College of Physicians of London, commonly referred to simply as the Royal College of Physicians (RCP), is a British professional membership body dedicated to improving the practice of medicine, chiefly through the accreditation of physicians by examination. Founded by royal charter from King Henry VIII in 1518, as the College of ...